US Patent Issued to Waymo on Feb. 3 for "Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device having multiple receivers" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,008, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device having multiple receivers" was invented by Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Caner Onal (Palo Alto, Calif.), William McCann (San Francisco), Bernard Fidric (Cupertino, Calif.), Vadim Gutnik (Mountain View, Calif.), Laila Mattos (Dallas) and Rahim Pardhan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a LIDAR device that may include a transmitter, first and second receivers, and a rotating platform. The transmitter may be configured to emit light having a vertical beam width. The first receiver ma...